On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:49:30PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
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> The things I'm really unsure about are:
>
> 1) What daeman do I need to have running (pop3d Imapd...). I intend
> to have other household machines retreive via pop3 from this
> server.
Well, you'll first have to decide where you want your users to keep
their old mail. Does everyone has it's own privat machine to do
his/her mail, or are there times that one is on a different machine,
yet still needs to access old mail? In the latter case a pop3 server
isn't suited, it's geared to downloading *all* mail and stuffing it
locally. To bad when you do it whilst on a different machine:( IMAP on
the other hand was designed just to make this possible. So if I where
you I would dedignate one machine to be the mail repository, have all
users receive mail there and stuff there old mail there too.
So make up your mind and use *IMAP*
> 2) Do other machine users really have to have accounts on debian box?
> or just a mailbox at /var/mail?
That depends on what programs you use.
> 3) If I have a daemon running, is it possible to setup so that it only
> runs when a machine connects.
>
> 4) How can I bar any machines that are not 192.xxx.xxx from the
> 143/110 port.
both can be solved with *(x)inet.d*
> 5) what do I have to tell exim in order for it to know to send the
> other machines outgoing mail to my isp smart_host.
you should make it *relay* for them.
> 6) can all this be made invisible to the internet, so that a scan will
> not show 143/110 as running or open?
yep, and it should!
You get your mail with fetchmail, so there is no need to have the port
visible to the outside.
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groetjes, carel